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Now that you know what Bill 29 actually does.
(If you don't, start with yesterday's thread on "How Bill 29 Actually Works")
How I'm going through the fight over it?
One Hansard session at a time,
Every debate,
Every vote,
Straight from the official transcript.
As dry as the reading may be.
What's coming and why.
Let's ROCK (lobster)!
🧵
(If you don't, start with yesterday's thread on "How Bill 29 Actually Works")
How I'm going through the fight over it?
One Hansard session at a time,
Every debate,
Every vote,
Straight from the official transcript.
As dry as the reading may be.
What's coming and why.
Let's ROCK (lobster)!
🧵
Why go back through the debate at all, when the bill already passed?
Because HOW something becomes law?
Who argued what,
What got asked and never answered,
What passed on a recorded division vs. a simple voice vote?
Is a different story than just knowing it passed.
That story is sitting in Hansard, mostly unread.
Totally understand why.
Not the most exciting literature I've read.
Because HOW something becomes law?
Who argued what,
What got asked and never answered,
What passed on a recorded division vs. a simple voice vote?
Is a different story than just knowing it passed.
That story is sitting in Hansard, mostly unread.
Totally understand why.
Not the most exciting literature I've read.
One thing worth flagging up front?
Second Reading alone took THREE separate sittings across 19 days -
April 23, then May 5, then finally May 12.
That's three full days of floor debate on the core question, spread out.
Not one.
Second Reading alone took THREE separate sittings across 19 days -
April 23, then May 5, then finally May 12.
That's three full days of floor debate on the core question, spread out.
Not one.
🧠 Pituitary Microadenomas and Mental Health
Let's get into it.
📐 What We're Dealing With
A pituitary microadenoma is a benign tumor of the pituitary gland measuring less than 10mm in diameter. Small, yes — but don't let the "micro" fool you. The pituitary sits in the sella turcica, a bony saddle at the base of the skull, right at the crossroads of your brain's command center. It's surrounded by the optic chiasm above, the cavernous sinuses laterally, and the hypothalamus just north of it.
The gland itself is the master regulator — it controls your thyroid, adrenals, gonads, growth, lactation, water balance, and more. A tumor there, even a tiny one, is like a pebble in the gears of a Swiss watch.
Let's get into it.
📐 What We're Dealing With
A pituitary microadenoma is a benign tumor of the pituitary gland measuring less than 10mm in diameter. Small, yes — but don't let the "micro" fool you. The pituitary sits in the sella turcica, a bony saddle at the base of the skull, right at the crossroads of your brain's command center. It's surrounded by the optic chiasm above, the cavernous sinuses laterally, and the hypothalamus just north of it.
The gland itself is the master regulator — it controls your thyroid, adrenals, gonads, growth, lactation, water balance, and more. A tumor there, even a tiny one, is like a pebble in the gears of a Swiss watch.
🔬 The Two Big Categories
Functional (Hormone-Secreting)
These are the ones that really wreak havoc. They pump out excess hormone regardless of what the body actually needs:
Type
Hormone Excess
Prevalence
Prolactinoma
Prolactin
~40% of all pituitary adenomas
GH-secreting
Growth Hormone
Causes acromegaly in adults
ACTH-secreting
ACTH → Cortisol
Cushing's disease
TSH-secreting
TSH → Thyroid hormone
Rare
Non-Functional
These don't secrete excess hormone but cause problems through mass effect — compressing surrounding structures, disrupting normal pituitary function by crowding out healthy tissue.
Functional (Hormone-Secreting)
These are the ones that really wreak havoc. They pump out excess hormone regardless of what the body actually needs:
Type
Hormone Excess
Prevalence
Prolactinoma
Prolactin
~40% of all pituitary adenomas
GH-secreting
Growth Hormone
Causes acromegaly in adults
ACTH-secreting
ACTH → Cortisol
Cushing's disease
TSH-secreting
TSH → Thyroid hormone
Rare
Non-Functional
These don't secrete excess hormone but cause problems through mass effect — compressing surrounding structures, disrupting normal pituitary function by crowding out healthy tissue.
🧠 Direct Neurological Impact
Before we even get to mental health, the tumor can cause:
•Headaches — stretching of the dura mater, pressure on the diaphragma sellae
•Visual field defects — classic bitemporal hemianopsia when the tumor compresses the optic chiasm from below
•Cavernous sinus invasion — can affect cranial nerves III, IV, V1, V2, and VI (double vision, facial numbness)
•Pituitary apoplexy — sudden hemorrhage into the tumor, a neurosurgical emergency presenting as a thunderclap headache
Before we even get to mental health, the tumor can cause:
•Headaches — stretching of the dura mater, pressure on the diaphragma sellae
•Visual field defects — classic bitemporal hemianopsia when the tumor compresses the optic chiasm from below
•Cavernous sinus invasion — can affect cranial nerves III, IV, V1, V2, and VI (double vision, facial numbness)
•Pituitary apoplexy — sudden hemorrhage into the tumor, a neurosurgical emergency presenting as a thunderclap headache
I'm continuing my Micro SD Card "swapout" to reclaim some of my bigger cards with these smaller 32GB cards that I bought. Today's victims are my ITX Llama and the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B that puts my HP LaserJet 5L on the network. Let's talk about how it's going, time for a 🧵 
First, we'll start with the ITX Llama. I took out the SD card from the motherboard and brought it to my modern system. Only one partition was showing though! So I booted the ITX Llama back up and adjusted what is currently visible from the boot manager. Okay, that's better!
Oh, here is what FDISK shows after making that change! The "non DOS" partition is Windows 98, FAT32, which DOS 6.22 can't see
The high yield ETF screener you need. 🧵👇
• Has the nav traded flat or down while the underlying moved up? (If yes cut it)
• Is the total return only positive with drip on? If a fund can only make money with drip on its not an income fund.
• Has the nav traded flat or down while the underlying moved up? (If yes cut it)
• Is the total return only positive with drip on? If a fund can only make money with drip on its not an income fund.
• What is the tradeoff of the fund? Does it get hit harder in downtrends? Does it have more upside cap? That tells you the use case in your portfolio.
• Find the correct use case. Is it a Tier 1 or 2 core? Or is it a funnel position? That’s how you know how to use the fund and how capital to allocate.
• Find the correct use case. Is it a Tier 1 or 2 core? Or is it a funnel position? That’s how you know how to use the fund and how capital to allocate.
• Does the fund pay 12% yield or less? If so make sure it gets strong nav and dividend growth. If not there’s better options in that yield range.
• What does the strategy do to allow for upside capture? If you can’t come up with an answer it will always trend down on nav.
• What does the strategy do to allow for upside capture? If you can’t come up with an answer it will always trend down on nav.
Property-owning petty-bourgeois love AI. Employees, both proletarian and liberal professionals (ie non-owning petty bourgeois), hate it. Bc of its socialisation of functions of middle management and mental labour, it has so far to cheapened some operations for small businesses.
This is connected to the reversal of the old teleology of the socialist mvmt that believed capital would by itself render obsolete the mediation by the sphere of circulation through the centralisation of capital. Instead, the logistical counterrevolution and offshoring +
just turned the sphere of circulation into a moment of production without abolishing it; rather, its importance has grown, along with its rationalisation, with many functions being cheapened by being funded by social capital as a whole after its socialisation.
1/ A Russian commander has reportedly come up with a novel form of 'flag-sticking', the practice of planting flags in Ukrainian-held territory to falsely report advances. He was reportedly caught using AI to fake flag-sticking events to conceal his territorial losses. ⬇️
2/ 'Donetsk Infantry' has posted an insight into the problems that the Russian command is continuing to have. with false reports from the ground. These have led to the war being fought on the basis of grossly inaccurate control of terrain maps.
3/ He writes: "On the role of AI in the Ministry of Defence’s reports," likely with reference to one of the areas in the Zaporizhzhia region where Ukrainian forces have recently been reported to be advancing.
Everyone thinks Europe's cheapest livable coastline is in Greece, Portugal or the Balkans. It isn't.
It's in Southern Italy. Today it might be the most contrarian bet in Europe: seven real cities, prices starting at €600/sqm, the warmest sea in the country, and a 7% flat tax on foreign income for retirees in the towns around them.
Let me be clear: this is an extreme call, on a specific part of Italy. Not for many, but very much for a few. Under the right conditions, a real alternative to the coasts everyone else is bidding up.
I'm Italian, I know exactly why it's cheap, and this thread gives you both sides: the pros, the cons, and who should even consider it.
Thread 🧵
It's in Southern Italy. Today it might be the most contrarian bet in Europe: seven real cities, prices starting at €600/sqm, the warmest sea in the country, and a 7% flat tax on foreign income for retirees in the towns around them.
Let me be clear: this is an extreme call, on a specific part of Italy. Not for many, but very much for a few. Under the right conditions, a real alternative to the coasts everyone else is bidding up.
I'm Italian, I know exactly why it's cheap, and this thread gives you both sides: the pros, the cons, and who should even consider it.
Thread 🧵
One framing point before the list.
Most people's mental map of "cheap Europe by the sea" is ten years old. Portugal got expensive. Spain's coast got expensive, if you consider the places you actually want to live in. Greece is getting there fast, and Eastern European capitals are overtaking them all. The map moved, and Southern Italy is the part that never got re-checked.
Then in April, Italy made it better: the 7% flat-tax cap for pensioners moved from towns of 20,000 people to 30,000. About 80 real towns became eligible overnight, some of them famous.
This is an early idea, not a universally applicable recommendation. It assumes foreign income, and it comes with serious cons, healthcare first. Two of my seven picks are objectively controversial, and I propose them exactly for that reason, as an element for reflection.
And you don't even need to move. For many people, the more balanced version of this play is considering the South of Italy for a second home.
As always, the longer version goes out in my weekly newsletter, where you are more than welcome to join: palombo.substack.com
Most people's mental map of "cheap Europe by the sea" is ten years old. Portugal got expensive. Spain's coast got expensive, if you consider the places you actually want to live in. Greece is getting there fast, and Eastern European capitals are overtaking them all. The map moved, and Southern Italy is the part that never got re-checked.
Then in April, Italy made it better: the 7% flat-tax cap for pensioners moved from towns of 20,000 people to 30,000. About 80 real towns became eligible overnight, some of them famous.
This is an early idea, not a universally applicable recommendation. It assumes foreign income, and it comes with serious cons, healthcare first. Two of my seven picks are objectively controversial, and I propose them exactly for that reason, as an element for reflection.
And you don't even need to move. For many people, the more balanced version of this play is considering the South of Italy for a second home.
As always, the longer version goes out in my weekly newsletter, where you are more than welcome to join: palombo.substack.com
The tax primer, in 60 seconds:
Move to a southern town of up to 30,000 people with a foreign pension, and Italy taxes ALL your foreign income at a flat 7% for nine years. Not just the pension: dividends, interest, capital gains.
And the names that came in with April's change tell you everything: Noto, Erice and Scicli were all off the map three months ago.
Ultimately, what this unlocks: you live in a beautiful small town 10-20 minutes from a real city, you keep the city's hospital, airport and life, and you keep most of your income.
For Americans, one important caveat: cross-check with a commercialista first. Between the treaty and US citizenship-based taxation, the real all-in usually lands in the teens, not at 7. Still a bargain, but run your number before you fall in love.
Remote workers: the Digital Nomad Visa works in all seven cities, no size limits. Of course, it's a totally different strategy, directionally, than Thailand and its €600/month studio in a skyscraper. But for many of you, this could be an option. It's a bet and, yes, it's early.
Move to a southern town of up to 30,000 people with a foreign pension, and Italy taxes ALL your foreign income at a flat 7% for nine years. Not just the pension: dividends, interest, capital gains.
And the names that came in with April's change tell you everything: Noto, Erice and Scicli were all off the map three months ago.
Ultimately, what this unlocks: you live in a beautiful small town 10-20 minutes from a real city, you keep the city's hospital, airport and life, and you keep most of your income.
For Americans, one important caveat: cross-check with a commercialista first. Between the treaty and US citizenship-based taxation, the real all-in usually lands in the teens, not at 7. Still a bargain, but run your number before you fall in love.
Remote workers: the Digital Nomad Visa works in all seven cities, no size limits. Of course, it's a totally different strategy, directionally, than Thailand and its €600/month studio in a skyscraper. But for many of you, this could be an option. It's a bet and, yes, it's early.
Calling all morning fitness enthusiasts…
If you work out at 4 AM, 5 AM, 6 AM, 7 AM and you’re not sure what to eat/drink before your workout, read this:
If you work out at 4 AM, 5 AM, 6 AM, 7 AM and you’re not sure what to eat/drink before your workout, read this:
You’ve probably wondered….
“When should I eat if I work out first thing in the morning?”
Or
“Should I eat at all before I train?”
Let’s unpack this properly 👇🏻
“When should I eat if I work out first thing in the morning?”
Or
“Should I eat at all before I train?”
Let’s unpack this properly 👇🏻
The first thing you need to understand:
What you eat the night before plays a huge role in how you perform the next morning.
If you’re training early, your dinner and late-day meals are going to play a key role in “fueling” you when you wake up.
What you eat the night before plays a huge role in how you perform the next morning.
If you’re training early, your dinner and late-day meals are going to play a key role in “fueling” you when you wake up.
Andoni Iraola still has a lot of question marks around him, but the Sunderland game showcased tactical qualities Liverpool haven't seen in a LONG TIME.
Below, in this in-depth thread, I break down how Iraola set Liverpool up to a 🔝 standard on AND off the ball…
THREAD! 🚨👇
Below, in this in-depth thread, I break down how Iraola set Liverpool up to a 🔝 standard on AND off the ball…
THREAD! 🚨👇
Before starting the analysis, I want to address the quality of the personnel that Liverpool on the pitch with much of the first XI not being available to pick from.
Despite that, I can assure you that Iraola will play the EXACT same way when these guys come for pre-season. 100%.
Despite that, I can assure you that Iraola will play the EXACT same way when these guys come for pre-season. 100%.
Iraola's identity is EXTREMELY clear, both with and without the ball.
His Bournemouth team played the same way week in, week out.
And, in his first Liverpool game, we saw an exact tactical replica of that idea.
Let's start with the ball as Liverpool built in a fluid 4-2-4.
His Bournemouth team played the same way week in, week out.
And, in his first Liverpool game, we saw an exact tactical replica of that idea.
Let's start with the ball as Liverpool built in a fluid 4-2-4.
1/ Russian soldiers say they are facing a "catastrophic shortage" of fuel at the front lines due to Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries. Far less is available now, it's more expensive, and it's only being issued for vehicles owned by the army – excluding vast numbers in use. ⬇️
2/ Soldiers interviewed by the independent Russian news site Verska says that a "catastrophic shortage" has made the situation "a complete mess". Just like civilians, the military is now being rationed to only 20 litres of gasoline per vehicle per day.
3/ The Russian army is also only issuing fuel to vehicles with military licence plates. As the vast majority of frontline vehicles (reportedly up to 90%) are privately owned, either by soldiers themselves or donated to them, this policy is likely having a big effect on mobility.
After publishing Proximal Origin in 2020 to dismiss all lab origin scenarios of Covid - under advice from major funders Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome), Anthony Fauci (NIAID) & Francis Collins (NIH) - the first author celebrated:
"WE RUUUUUUULE. That's tenure secured, right there."
"WE RUUUUUUULE. That's tenure secured, right there."
In 2022, these scientists wrote this about multimillion dollar awards from NIAID:
Ed Holmes: "You mean you have to write grants? I thought they were awarded automatically?"
Kristian Andersen: "I thought so too - that's what Der Fauci said, but I haven't seen the check yet."
Ed Holmes: "You mean you have to write grants? I thought they were awarded automatically?"
Kristian Andersen: "I thought so too - that's what Der Fauci said, but I haven't seen the check yet."
They were (maybe still are) on cold-calling basis with Anthony Fauci.
One Proximal Origin author wrote: "it is good to have Tony in our corner."
One Proximal Origin author wrote: "it is good to have Tony in our corner."
